Rosalind Russell Quotes

#1. French martinis or lemon drops or cosmos and impromptu viewings of Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version, not the Lucille Ball version) or Steel Magnolias.

Kristen Ashley

#2. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#3. If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

Kari Matchett

#4. My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Anna Kendrick

#5. My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

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#6. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

Petey Pablo

#7. Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

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#8. Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

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#9. Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

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#10. Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

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#11. The responsibility to conduct the

Veronica Roth

#12. 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

Wallace Shawn

#13. They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Rosamund Hodge

#14. Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

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#15. Trials make the promise sweet; Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

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#17. I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

Oliver Reed

#18. Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

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#19. In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.

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#20. Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not

Jan Dalley

#21. History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Jim Murphy

#22. Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

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#23. She strutted into the room, armour-plated in white linen, belligerent as a battleship. The bib of her apron, starched rigid as a board, curved against a formidable bosom on which she wore her nursing badges like medals of war.

P.D. James

#24. Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

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#25. The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

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#26. Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

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#27. Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

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#28. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

John Varley

#29. My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

Mike Lee

#30. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

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#31. I'll match my flops with anybody's but I wouldn't have missed 'em.

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#32. The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

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#33. We weren't wrong for being ourselves; we were wrong for each other.

Renee Carlino

#34. It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

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#35. It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

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#36. I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

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